General Joint Sessions and Workshops of WMSCI 2015 and its Collocated Events

July 12-15, 2015 ~ Orlando, Florida, USA

The Use of Narrative Medicine Literature for Interdisciplinary Communication through the Internet Learning System

Professor Ya-Huei Wang, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan

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Dr. Ya-Huei Wang is a Professor at Chung-Shan Medical University. She got her Ph.D. in education from National Changhwa University of Education, Taiwan. She has published more than 40 research papers in BJET, Higher Education, ESWA, and other journals. Her current research interests include adaptive learning, interdisciplinary cooperative learning, complementary learning, etc. She teaches at the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Chung Shan Medical University and the Department of Medical Education, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital.

An increasing reliance on nonhuman technologies leads to an impersonal and calculating medical care system, letting medical care professionals and specialists not care much about patients’ human experiences and hence leading to a decline in the quality of medical care. Patients lose personal contact with their doctors and other medical care professionals. Failing to understand patients’ perspectives would lead to communication problems among physicians, medical care professionals, patients, and patients’ families. However, the communication problems may be bridged by narrative medicine literature study. In the study, narrative medicine literature and interdisciplinary cooperative learning through the internet learning system were promoted to foresee a more humanizing medical care.